Raven wrote:
The Annoying Frenchman wrote:
It's okay on the first spins but the effect wears off pretty quickly save for a very few songs. Rather mediocre, I'd say.
I found Mindcrime II to be a HUGE disappointment after all the hype that surrounded it. I couldn't even walk away with a 'meh' feeling about it. I wanted it out of my house immediately, so I sold it on Ebay.
That's the thing. I expect it to be an atrocity just like I expected Mindcrime I to be a masterpiece. My expectations always cloud the perceptions of an album until I really know it well. I liked Mindcrime when I heard it but was not blown away and half the bands (including my favorite musician) cite it as a favorite of theirs. The fact that that the sequel is so maligned means to me that if it happens to just "good" I will like it a lot.
Labyrinth's 6 Days album was basically labelled a piece of shit by a lot of fans and non-fans alike and I really love that album because I expected nothing good and got something I really liked anyway. Tyranti's voice sounding better than ever did not hurt. I guess a lot of people expected more from the guitars and everything else.
You gotta understand I love pop music of a certain era and do not like monotonous speed in music mixed with predictable melodies and progressions and when bands want to focus on the songwriting a lot more and keep it mid-paced and simple, I get it. I'm investigating the rest of QR discography because as I understand it, That's what the situation was. I find more to like in a slower depeche mode song than I do in a blazing fast helloween song that came out the same year simply because the former is usually performed, produced and written better even though my tastes suggest I would like the Helloween stuff more.
